I found this clip on another site of people getting off a ride that got stuck and as some of the people were getting off, the train started to move with some people still sitting in the train with their restraints open and you can see a person close their restraint right before the train rolled down the first drop. http://www.vkmag.com/videos/video_foutje_in_de_python/

The only reason this happened in this situation is because part of the chain was hanging off the top of the lift. It was the worst spot the train could stop. I doubt Dorney would change their procedures because something like this would be very rare.

It probably happens more often than one would think. And yeah, it would be better to push it over, that is until you have your one crybaby that insists on being evacuated because it's "so much safer" than restarting the ride. But I imagine at some 3rd world park like that they probably would restart it anyway and the hell with them.

When I was evacuated from GASM on the brake run, they went from back to front even though the front was closer to the station. What was scary was on the left side there was nothing, no rail or walkway (you exited on the left side) and if someone lost their balance or tripped they could have fallen.

Sitting in those cramped cars for 30 minutes was horrible, especially since we didn't get anything like an exit pass. At least at Dorney they give you a coupon for a free soda. Plus they are faster, when I had to be evacuated off Thunder Creek Mountain (the boat was on the lift), someone was there in 2 minutes and the whole process from when the ride stopped to when I exited the ride area was maybe 5 minutes total.